Staff Software Engineer, Quality & Reliability Platform
- Company
- BuildOps
- Location
- United States
- Level
- Lead
- Posted
- 10.10.2026
Job description
BuildOps is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set and drive our company-wide technical strategy for building, shipping, and operating reliable software. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for an engineer who sees quality and reliability as properties of the entire system—not as a final testing phase or the responsibility of a separate team. You will work across engineering, product, infrastructure, and customer-facing organizations to identify systemic risks, establish architectural standards, and create platform capabilities that make safe, dependable delivery the default. You will influence how teams design systems, validate changes, observe production behavior, manage risk, and learn from failures. Your work will span architecture, developer tooling, release safety, observability, resilience, testability, and engineering practices. The specific solutions will evolve as you identify the highest-leverage opportunities. Product engineering teams at BuildOps own the quality and testing of their features. Your role is not to test their work for them. You will establish the technical direction, paved roads, systems, and standards that enable every team to deliver reliable software with greater confidence and speed. What You Will Do Define and drive BuildOps' technical strategy for engineering quality, production reliability, and safe software delivery. Identify systemic sources of customer-impacting failures and lead cross-team initiatives that address root causes rather than individual symptoms. Establish architectural principles, engineering standards, and paved roads that make reliable system design and safe delivery easier by default. Partner with engineering teams during system and product design to improve resilience, operability, testability, and failure isolation before implementation begins. Build or guide the development of shared platform capabilities for release safety, automated validation, production feedback, test data, environment manag